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Demographic and Health Survey 1988 - IPUMS Subset

Tunisia, 1988
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TUN_1988_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Office National de la Famille et de la Population et Institute for Resource Development/Macro Systems, Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Child's illness before death: Stiff body (C_ILLPREDSTIFF)

Data file: TUN1988-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 794
End: 794
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
TABLE 6: BIRTHS IN THE LAST 5 YEARS

554) When he/she died, did you notice:

SWELLING OF EXTREMITIES OR BODY 1
EXTREME THINNESS 1
HIGH FEVER 1
DIARRHEA 1
VOMITING 1
UNABLE TO OPEN MOUTH TO EAT 1
INTENSE AND PERSISTENT COUGH 1
RESPIRATORY ISSUE 1
JAUNDICE 1
OUTBREAK 1
CONVULSIONS (EYE REVULSIONS, AND LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS) 1
STIFF BODY 1
MUSCLE CONTRACTIONS 1
ACCIDENTS 1
INTOXICATION OR POISONING 1
OTHER (SPECIFY) 1
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
8 Missing
9 NIU (not in universe)
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Description

Definition
For young children who have died, ILLPREDSTIFF indicates whether, in response to an open-ended question, the child's mother reported the child suffered from bodily stiffness before death.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Cause of death Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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